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2007
May June July August September October

Overall Total Number of Adults Attending Ceremonies

40

65

40

60

55

75

Philippines

20

30

25

30

15

35

India

5

5

5

10

10

10

China (Peoples Republic of China)

(1)

5

(1)

5

10

10

South Africa

(1)

(1)

5

10

5

British National (Overseas)

5

(1)

(1)

5

10

Turkey

(1)

5

Zimbabwe

(1)

5

(1)

(1)

(1)

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

(1)

(1)

United States of America

(1)

(1)

Pakistan

(1)

(1)

(1)

Other Nationalities

5

20

5

5

10

15

(1) Negligible i.e. 2 or less.
Notes:
1. Relates to adults only.
2. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5.
Source:
Local Management Information.

Children: Protection

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many specialist child protection officers have been employed in each police force area in each of the last five years. [165670]

Mr. McNulty: Figures collected by the Home Office, on police officer and staff numbers by function, do not separately identify child protection officers.

Commissioner of the Police for the Metropolis

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what meetings she had with the Commissioner of the Police for the Metropolis in each week since June 2007; what the (a) location and (b) duration of each meeting was; whether a record of each meeting was kept; who attended each meeting; what the cost was of each meeting, broken down by (i) administrative and (ii) other costs; and if she will make a statement. [167397]

Mr. McNulty: My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and I have regular meetings with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to discuss official business.

Community Relations

Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what training is being provided to neighbourhood police teams on dealing with radicalisation in their local communities; where such courses are delivered; and what the duration of such courses is. [165839]

Mr. McNulty: I refer to the reply I gave on 19 November 2007, Official Report, column 504-05W to my hon. Friend, the Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane).

In addition to the advice and training already available to Neighbourhood Policing Teams, some also receive bespoke ‘Intelligence and Community Engagement’ training, which examines the issues relating to neighbourhood policing teams’ engagement with local communities. This training, which lasts a day and is delivered in force, is being piloted in four police forces and consideration is now being given to its wider dissemination. Police personnel are also able to learn about how to deal with radicalisation through a specific internet website.

The National Policing Improvement Agency is currently completing a major Training Needs Analysis for Counter-Terrorism which includes an analysis of training needs in the areas of radicalisation and extremism. The new learning programme will be available in 2008.


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Community Support Officers: Manpower

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police community support officers there were in each of the last four years in each police force area. [165674]

Mr. McNulty: Figures for the four years from 31 March 2004 to 31 March 2007, the most recent published period, are given in the following table.


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Police community support officer strength( 1) (FTE)( 2) by police force: 31 March 2004 to 31 March 2007
Police force 31 March 2004 31 March 2005( 3) 31 March 2006( 3) 31 March 2007( 3)

Avon and Somerset

45

139

130

302

Bedfordshire

12

40

41

83

Cambridgeshire

57

86

101

184

Cheshire

50

52

75

176

Cleveland

77

75

100

114

Cumbria

0

17

17

85

Derbyshire

0

43

42

181

Devon and Cornwall

51

74

74

317

Dorset

8

47

61

122

Durham

28

69

67

142

Essex

86

179

192

388

Gloucestershire

54

72

72

169

Greater Manchester

173

269

251

763

Hampshire

0

26

30

296

Hertfordshire

46

98

139

223

Humberside

0

20

20

194

Kent

59

105

97

203

Lancashire

110

161

184

374

Leicestershire

41

103

136

216

Lincolnshire

38

75

78

147

London, City of

0

14

11

36

Merseyside

72

170

196

332

Metropolitan Police

1,463

2,147

2,315

3,694

Norfolk

33

68

65

176

Northamptonshire

10

37

40

129

Northumbria

51

126

129

248

North Yorkshire

52

75

71

147

Nottinghamshire

56

108

112

217

South Yorkshire

59

124

121

302

Staffordshire

7

63

70

203

Suffolk

15

34

30

123

Surrey

56

115

126

203

Sussex

83

228

257

352

Thames Valley

7

98

130

213

Warwickshire

25

56

64

127

West Mercia

57

81

85

217

West Midlands

39

219

252

644

West Yorkshire

265

394

462

690

Wiltshire

23

41

57

121

Dyfed-Powys

5

25

26

77

Gwent

45

77

76

105

North Wales

0

59

58

145

South Wales

59

107

111

314

Total England and Wales

3,418

6,214

6,769

13,497

(1) This table contains full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items.
(2) Full-time equivalent includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave.
(3) Strength figures as at 31 March 2005 onwards include those staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. Therefore these figures are not comparable with those provided for other years in the table.

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